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The powerful wireless charging design can fully charge an electric car in 20 minutes
This wireless method consists of a set of two charging coils, one mounted below an electric vehicle and the other on the ground.
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Detecting the 4th state of the water
In addition to the three known states, solid, liquid, gas, water exists in the strange fourth state named after
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The world's most powerful new supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - America has just introduced the world's most powerful Titan supercomputer to date.
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America racing to build supercomputers with China
Two US 20-petaflop systems are scheduled to be completed in 2012. But ranked No. 1 on this year's Top500 list, is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer.
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New materials in batteries help to prevent fire
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL (Tennessee, USA) developed a solid electrolyte to replace flammable substances used in lithium-ion batteries.